The author of Love, Nina introduces a dysfunctional English family in search of a patriarch: "brilliant... I can't remember a novel that made me laugh more" (Guardian, UK).

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Soon after her parents' separation, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel moves with her siblings and newly single mother to a tiny village in the English countryside, where the new neighbors are horrified by their unorthodox ways and fatherless household. Lizzie's theatrical mother only invites more gossip by spending her days drinking whiskey, popping pills, and writing plays. The one way to fit in, the children decide, will be to find themselves a new man at the helm.

Nina Stibbe made a literary splash with her debut memoir, Love, Nina. Her first novel now cements her reputation as one of the most gifted comic voices writing today. Man at the Helm is a hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking portrait of childhood in an unconventional family.

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• Literature & FictionHumor & SatireGeneral Humor
• Literature & FictionSmall Town & Rural
• Literature & FictionGenre FictionComing of Age

• Publication Date: March 17, 2015
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 317 Pages
• File Size: 3,850 KB